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Mar
20
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Registration is now open for the American Evaluation Association’s annual Summer Evaluation Institute. The Institute, held in Atlanta, runs for 2.5 days and features 26 half-day training sessions. Here are five reasons I make a point of attending this Institute every year. Great instructors. The training is offered by some of the most experienced evaluators… Read More »
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Mar
13
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It was an amazing a-ha moment. We kind of blinked at each other, and then simultaneously said ‘We got to do something.’ – Dr. Nancy Hardt, University of Florida This week on National Public Radio’s (NPR) All Things Considered was a story of what happened when Dr. Nancy Hardt, an OB-GYN, used data from Medicaid… Read More »
Posted in: Data Visualization
Mar
06
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Have you ever found yourself trying to do an evaluation activity, but needing that one helpful tool? Or perhaps you need a step-by-step guide on how to do a community assessment, or are looking for ways to build evaluation into a project that you are planning? The OERC has an online guide called Tools and… Read More »
Posted in: Data Visualization
Feb
27
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The American Evaluation Association (AEA) just concluded a week-long blog theme about qualitative evaluation, which we’ve summarized below for your reference and to consider as part of your own assessment efforts: The Role of Context – the authors of this entry previously shared five high quality elements of qualitative evaluation, and this entry referenced them… Read More »
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Feb
20
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http://publiclibrariesonline.org/2015/01/library-services-for-the-new-normal-of-miltary-families/ This week the OERC would like to highlight a community assessment that led to a public library’s outreach to the military community of Cumberland County, North Carolina. This project is described in “Library Services for the ‘New Normal’ of Military Families” by Jennifer Taft and Cynthia Olney, which appears in the November/December issue of… Read More »
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